Researching trust and health / edited by Julie Brownlie, Alexandra Greene and Alexandra Howson.

New York ; London : Routledge, 2008.

x, 221 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conceptualizing trust and health / Julie Brownlie -- "Virtual trust": online emotional intimacies in mental health support / Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson -- "You have to have trust in those pictures": a perspective on women's experiences of mammography screening / Marit Solbjør -- Restoring trust? Trust and informed consent in the aftermath of the organ retention scandal / Valerie M. Sheach Leith -- The nature of reciprocity and the spirit of the gift: balancing trust and governance in long term illness / Alexandra Greene, Peter McKiernan, and Stephen Greene -- Accountability and trust in integrated teams for care of older people and people with chronic mental health problems / Guro Huby -- Trust and asymmetry in general practitioner-patient relationships in the United Kingdom / Bruce Guthrie -- Tokens of trust or token trust? Public consultation and "generation Scotland" / Gill Haddow and Sarah Cunningham-Burley -- The elixir of social trust: social capital and cultures of challenge in health movements / Alex Law -- The health care outcomes of trust: a review of empirical evidence / Karen S. Cook and Irena Stepanikova.